What do you do when you look at your computer screen and it says you have thousands of friends but when you look around your room you are entirely alone? Katherine Brooks took a handful of pills and when that failed, she went on a journey to meet some of those thousands of friends face 2 face.
What do you do when you look at your computer screen and it says you have thousands of friends but when you look around your room you are entirely alone? Katherine Brooks took a handful of pills and when that failed, she went on a journey to meet some of those thousands of friends face 2 face.
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Eat, Pray, Love By: Elizabeth Gilbert I read a book recently that was apparently appealing to enough people that it was made into a film. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is the story of a woman who goes through a spiritual transformation, certainly not a new theme but definitely an appealing one in this day and age. To accomplish her lofty goal, she travels the world for an entire year and does spiritual things, like learn how to enjoy her own company in Italy by teaching herself how to enjoy simple pleasures guilt free, visiting an Ashram in India to learn devotion then ultimately finding a way to become comfortable enough with herself in Bali that she could feel free enough to love someone without all those pesky co-dependency issues. All that is fine and good and hundreds of people can relate to her plight. Awakening one day, and I don’t just mean getting up in the morning, I mean having an epiphany, a big realization that you have become a round peg trying to force yourself into the square hole that your life has become. Girl Interrupted by: Susanna Kaysen I saw the movie first and it compelled me to read the book. I liked the movie, it was entertaining. The acting was delicious. Winona Ryder played the intrepid heroine Susanna; Angelina Jolie gave a brilliant performance as Lisa, sociopathic and proud of it, at least most of the time. Though she was a secondary character there were times when Jolie stole the show. To round out the cast there was a pre anorexic looking Brittany Murphy as Daisy, a girl with an obsession for chicken and Whoopie Goldberg as one of the nurses, sort of a version of the character she played on Star Trek, always knowing just what to say and when to say it, knowing when to NOT say anything at all. The most notable difference being that the odd hats she wore for Star Trek were replaced with a tasteful afro and a sporty headband. As usual, the book was better though it didn’t diminish the movie in any way, I recommend both. Most people have heard of “The Secret” and as much as I hate to burst anyone’s bubble I feel honesty is always the best policy so here it is; it’s not and never has been a secret. I first heard about the “Secret” online, after the book had become a movie. The movie was getting horrible reviews so although I had tentative plans to watch it with a friend I wasn’t in any huge rush. One day, I allowed the mindset and found myself standing in front of the “New Arrival” DVD’s at the video store. Perhaps it was some sort of a sign, my manifestation; my own power of using the law of attraction, not a secret. The funny bit was that deep down I knew it wouldn’t have worked anyway since I really was never “attracted” to the idea of watching it to begin with. I had tried to get my hands on the book, I knew my local library carried it but they never had it in. After watching the movie the only thing I wanted to implement the law of attraction to manifest would be to get back the time I spent watching it. |
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